FLORENCE CARPENTER DIEUDONNÉ.
1887.
Right to Dramatize Reserved.
“Rondah; or, Thirty-three Years in a Star,” is one of the brightest, most ingenious and most absorbing of the fanciful and mysterious class of novels recently made so popular by H. Rider Haggard. It is much better than “She” or “King Solomon’s Mines,” and will give greater satisfaction. The plot is strange and weird and the incidents surprising in the highest degree. The scene is laid chiefly in a little star with subterranean volcanic fires and boiling seas. To this small planet, not yet entirely fitted for human inhabitants, some of the characters are conveyed by extraordinary means from the Earth while a tempest is in progress. Their adventures during the luxuriant summer and the icy twenty years’ winter are vividly and strikingly depicted, love, hate, jealousy and enthusiasm entering largely into their very peculiar and interesting experience. The heroine, who for a time remains on Earth, has also a strange career. She eventually reaches the star and plays a prominent part in the disclosure of the mysteries of the Sun Island, a wonderful region of marvels and magnificence. The romance is by Florence Carpenter Dieudonné, and is finely written. It will be widely read and greatly liked.
TO MY FATHER,
WHO HAD FAITH IN MY
TALENT BEFORE IT WAS PROFITABLE,
THIS VOLUME IS LOVINGLY
INSCRIBED.